First of all, this is front page news in any industry. I was born and raised in Arizona and have been a lowly Arizona Cardinals fan for the last 20 years. So when I tell you that I’ve heard every joke, taken the countless hours of ridicule and have endured being a fan of the laughing stock of all sports, you can truly understand why I am now as giddy as a schoolboy on Halloween.
The Cardinals improbable run into the Super Bowl makes me believe one, that anything, and I mean anything can happen, and two, all of my suffering over the last 20 years was not in vain. I booked my trip to go back to AZ to watch the big game with my brothers. It will be a once in a lifetime celebration because this truly is a once in a lifetime event.
If nothing else, let this occasion inspire you that you too can make a full time living on the internet. If the Arizona Cardinals can go to the Super Bowl, no one in the world has any excuse to accomplish anything at anytime.
Last night I was playing the Wii with my kids and we were taking turns playing the home run derby on Wii Sports. My boys are young (7 and 6 years old) and they did pretty good but after watching them go round after round trying to hit home runs I decided to give it a try. I must have developed the rythm of the pitches subconsciously because I took my turn and of the 10 pitches they threw me here is the result:
My boys went crazy after I hit the 10th homerun. They thought it was the coolest thing in the world and wanted me to leave the screen up until my wife got home so they could show her. I knew that would be a couple of hours so I comprimised and took that photo of it. It was all they could talk about for 30 minutes and they kept on giving me high fives, so much so that my 2 year old daughter started giving me high fives.
I realize this post doesn’t have much to do with internet marketing but as you can read in my about page, my family is very important to me and my success.
I just got back last night from a two day trip to Arizona. I had to meet a potential client down in the valley and since my whole family lives there it was a good excuse to go spend some time with my brothers.
I flew out on Monday and having bought the ticket just a few hours before the flight the airline (US Airways) offered me a first class upgrade for just $100. That’s like asking me if I would like a 1 hour massage after enjoying a free round of 18 holes of golf on a private beautiful course in the Caribbean. I am 6’6” tall and definitely enjoy the leg room.
As a side note, if you have never flown first class I highly recommend that you don’t do it. I say this because once you’ve done it one time you will never want to fly coach again and unless you can find a smoking deal like the one I found for $100 more, it can get very expensive. I am truly grateful that I am in a situation where I can afford to do things like that.
So I met with the potential SEO client for an hour and spent the rest of the two days hanging out with my bros. I played some golf in the morning and after the meeting we rented a tractor and tore down an old chicken coupe and leveled out some dirt at my parents property.
What is it about driving a tractor and moving dirt that is so appealing? I don’t think there is a man out there that doesn’t think that is fun. That is why I love the tv show Little People Big World. I am so envious of that 30 acre farm they live on where they get to drive tractors and Rangers all the time. Check it out, it’s the best show on TV.
For those of you that don’t know, on my lawn care website I sell a kit that helps people start a lawn care business. I sell two versions of the kit, a basic kit for $49.95 and a Premium kit for $99.95.
I just finished running a test through Google’s website optimizer tool where I tested just selling the Premium kit against selling both the basic and the Premium. To my surprise in a side by side AB test the original version where I push the basic and premium together converted 36% better than the version that only pushed the Premium. Ironically, during that time of testing 80% of the sales that came through the original version were for the premium kit.
What I learned from the test:
People like to have options. Even though the vast majority of the customers bought the Premium Kit, they seem to be more at ease knowing there is a cheaper version. At least the conversion rates would suggest so.
I will next be testing adding a third version of the kit. This should get interesting.
Well the obvious answer to this question is yes you do. But the reason I ask this is because my laptop crashed yesterday and the geek squad told me it would take at least 2 days before they can even diagnose the problem and then they still have to fix it. So I am writing this post from my iMac at my house.
My big question is now that I have website’s running on autopilot and making me money, could I personally still be really successful without owning my own business computer. Could I just go to a library or school computer lab to use a computer when I needed it and still make money.
Well yesterday was day one without my computer. I made $125 on Clearview, $50 on Lawncare Dir, and probably another $350 on my other sites (I can’t check exact numbers on those because the logins are on my crashed computer, but they always make at least that) which gives me a running total of $525 for the day.
That’s pretty good considering I went and played some golf yesterday and also worked on the movie me and my brother are writing.
Who needs a computer anyway?
